ILLEGAL KILLINGS IN CYPRUS

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This motion was originally tabled by Mr Alan Meale on 24 October 1996. This is amendment number 1.

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leave out from `House' to end and add `regrets the deaths and injuries which have recently occured in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, and endoreses the view of UN envoy Gustav Feissel that "It was the resposibility of the Greek Cypriot Government to ensure that the cease-fire line was not violated." Regrets in particular the incident on 8th September 1996 when two young Turkish Cypriot national-servicemen, Privates Allahverdi Kilic and Burhan Cihangir were shot by night, resulting in the death of Private Kilic and injury of Private Cihangir; regrets also the abduction of Turkish farmer, Erkan Egmez from his field, and torture by Greek Cypriot police; recalls the US State Department report of 5th March 1996 that "Egmez appears to have been severly beaten in the period during and immediately after his arrest and eventually required ten days of hospitalisation, and that according to some eye-witnesses hooded police officials continued beating him even as he was being admitted to hospital."; and agrees with the Cyprus Mail, 13th August 1996, that the Greek Cypriot government's handling of the whole matter has been naive, indecisive, and irresponsible, and that the bloody clashes had given the message abroad that the two communities cannot live together, and that the presence of Turkish troops in Cyprus was necessary.".

Original motion text

That this House condemns the illegal killing of Cypriot citizens along the United Nations policed green line buffer zone in Cyprus; states that Tasso Isaak, Solomos Solomou, Petros Kakoullis and Stelios Panayi were unarmed at the time of their killing, and gave no indications whatsoever in their behaviour that they posed a danger or were engaged in anything that would endanger the lives of others; regrets that this closely follows the murder of Turkish Cypriot journalist Katlu Adali, a critic of the Turkish military presence in Cyprus and Mr Denktash; believes that the murders of these individuals by illegally occupying Turkish forces or their representatives were committed in cold blood as part of the campaign to spread fear among Cypriots on both sides of the dividing line, project a false impression of the two communities being unable to live together in a united Cyprus and to distrupt and damage the accession of Cyprus into full membership of the EuropeanUnion; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to demand of Turkey a commitment to peace by the withdrawal of support to the illegal Denktash regime, guarantees that no further monies be made available to terrorist organisations such as the Grey Wolves and help to arrest and bring to justice those persons responsible for the tragic shootings and the return of basic freedom to all citizens of Cyprus throughout the island.

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EDM (Early Day Motion) 54A1: tabled on 23 January 1997

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